Posted on 03/27/2013 6:04:12 PM PDT by SMGFan
Colorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes has offered to plead guilty and serve the rest of his life in prison to avoid the death penalty – a deal that would bring a swift end to the sometimes wrenching courtroom battle and circumvent a prolonged debate over his sanity.
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But I'm guessing that the "authorities" do not want to make and example of him...but rather want to keep him around as a prop and tool for furthering their own agenda.
Didn’t he convert to Islam, maybe he’ll convert a bunch of prisoners who will get out to do terrorism.
Like shoe bomber Richard Reid, a prison convert.
Cannabe much of a moslem then if he dinna wanna be a martyr.
Ever notice how murderous wackos like this don’t mind killing other people, they just don’t want to be killed themselves.
Ever notice how many people want to save people like this with YOUR MONEY?
If he is sane enough to figure that out then he is sane enough to be tried, convicted and executed.
I'll wager that the cost of his incarceration each year will be more than he'd ever earn. Burn him!
Here is a counter-offer:
Holmes,
1. You plead guilty and
2. You waive your right to appeal your sentence and
3. You allow the family members of those people whom you murdered to decide between life in prison with no possibility of parole or death.
You have twenty-four hours to decide.
The District Attorney
Why do those for gun control appear to oppose his death? ( I have not verified this) Wouldn’t death penalty be a great facet of comprehensive gun control?
True justice would be to dump his a$$ into a vat of boiling popcorn oil.
In this case, I suspect the death penalty would be incorrect, but for an odd reason.
Before the trial even began, when asked by the judge if the defense intended to enter a plea of insanity, they admitted the need to plow through a mountain of evidence and psychiatric examinations to find out if he was and is insane, or at least insane enough to matter.
And the judge agreed with them.
So the defense instead presented an argument for “diminished capacity”, which basically says that they think there are mental issues involved, at least enough to figure into the hearing, but TBD if he is insane or not.
And the judge agreed with that as well.
But this makes a death sentence very problematic. The appeals courts would have a hard time swallowing that. However if found guilty and given a life sentence, the door is open for a post sentencing competency hearing to determine if he is so very insane that he needs to spend the rest of his life in a high security mental ward (i.e. sedated for 23 hours every day.)
Truthfully, I suspect that if you were to crack open his skull, you would find a lot of angry spiders in there.
The left only want to kill babies (unborn or otherwise), Republicans/Independents/Tea Partiers, sane, rational, common sense people, Christians and Constitutionalists.
Murderers, rapists and abortionists get a pass because they are just products of the capitalist/industrialist slave masters.
You got to get with the program, komrad.
I’m okay with this. It prevents a lengthy, costly and painful trial plus all the appeals that would come from a death penalty case, plus with Colorado turning more liberal, who knows if somebody like Loopylooper would ever allow the switch to be pulled anyway.
This is what plea bargains are intended to do.
“Truthfully, I suspect that if you were to crack open his skull, you would find a lot of angry spiders in there.”
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I’m not totally certain that you would not find some tiny government goons in there. This is one fishy story, I can’t decide which is less believable, the official story on Holmes or the official story on Adam Lanza.
Let me put it this way. Imagine for a moment the “average sanity” of Americans. That is, imagine a person who is right in the middle, between sane and mental illness.
According to the Standard Distribution (bell shaped) curve, half of Americans have poorer mental health than that guy.
NO SALE
Holmes: one of the new martyrs of the political/regulator class for gun control.
No, just hang him or toss him alive into a woodchipper. No more taxpayer money wasted on this waste of oxygen and space.
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